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Here's kind of a strange questions. If you had a house guest who walked around naked,
or semi-naked, would that bother you all?
Short answer: No. I wouldn't care. I mean,
if you want to walk around naked who cares --- as long as I don't have to touch you
you can do what you want to do. I'm not looking. It doesn't make any difference
to me. Like I wouldn't even know. I guess the idea
of it is a little strange. I mean, I wouldn't think about walking around
somebody else's home naked or half-naked. Even if it was another blind
person it would never strike me to do that.
It would never occur to me. But I guess some people are that comfortable
that they feel alright doing that.
But at the same time, there's no better place to walk around naked or half naked
than in a blind person's home. Just don't tell me.
If you're going to do it, don't tell me.
And don't sit on the furniture. And don't rub up
against anything.
[music plays] I had a co-worker and
we were good friends, you know, and we'd joke and laugh a lot and things.
And when we worked in radio sometimes we would have to go do events.
We might have to change. And this woman would
never ever get naked in front of me. Never.
And I said,
And I said, "Why? How come?" She said, "You know what,
I think you can see. I think I'm going to get naked in front of you and all of the sudden
you're going to go 'ha ha, I can see!'" She wouldn't even be
partially naked in front of me. You know, like if she left her top and bottom on
and then put on new pants and a new top or whatever. I'm not sure what
she thought. Maybe she thought perhaps I could see more than I was letting on or...
or what. I don't know, but I always thought
that was so strange and it's clearly something I've never forgotten.
And that's crazy. So here I am. My whole life
I get the idea as a child, "here's what I'm going to do."
I'm going to pretend to be blind my entire life
until I meet this woman at work and then she's going to get naked in front
of me and I'm going to go "ha ha." That's a long way
to go for a joke.
That's more of a stretch than I usually do for comedy.
[music plays] So let's say you have some kind
of surgery and you can't see for a couple days and all of the sudden
your roommate starts to take advantage of the situation - begins walking around
the house naked or half-naked.
Would that bother you? I understand it seems strange but
how could it make you uncomfortable if you don't know what's happening.
I'm curious for people who actually live with blind people,
do you walk around the house naked or semi-naked? Do you let them know?
Do you tell them? If so, how do they react?
Do they care? Does it freak them out? This is a question
I don't think I've ever heard before... honestly.
I don't think I've ever heard this one.
Maybe I don't get out of the house enough.
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Would I ever go to a nude beach and be nude myself? That's a great question.
Um, sure, why not?
I mean, we're all sort of wearing the same thing, right? So after the initial
couple of minute of, "hey, I'm naked in front of everybody."
You sort of forget, I guess. Jeez, I don't know if I'd
ever forget that. I'd be afraid to.
I'd be afraid I'd burn myself. You know what I mean.
And then what? Then I can't
And then what? Then I can't wear clothes for a few days.
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Do I understand the purpose of clothing? Yes, I mean
we want to cover our bits up, right?
It's for fashion. It's too look good.
But I don't really understand it. Like, I know how clothing feels on me.
But I don't know how that clothing would look on you.
I understand that you'd wear a shirt and jeans or pants
or whatever. And I get that, but I don't know what it looks like.
Like for women, I know what a dress and skirt
and all that kind of stuff. I know what it is.
But I don't get how it makes you look cute or pretty
or how one piece of clothing can look great on one person
and horrible on another. That's a weird thing to me.
Fashion. I don't really know from fashion too much.
I put on clothing and then somebody will say, "hey, nice outfit."
But that's about all I know.
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And lingerie is fun to touch, but
like lace I don't really care for so much. That's not really that nice to touch.
Where as the silky stuff is smooth,
it's soft like that, but lace is sort of rough.
I understand it looks pretty. And I guess you can see through bits of it.
But not so much a tactile experience.
But the fun thing about lingerie is the buttons.
Or something like that, you know. It's sort of like unwrapping a gift.
Well, because you have to be very careful, don't you? So it's gentle.
It's slow and you're unwrapping a little present in front of you.
A little human "presy." Me, I call it "ling-erie."
[laughs] Sorry.
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I wonder if the whole world was blind, would we wear clothing?
Right? Because then it wouldn't matter.
We're all the same and nobody's looking anyway. Jeez, I don't know.
I don't think so. I think the rules would be a lot different if the
whole world was blind. I really do. A lot of things would be different.
Maybe clothes would be more utilitarian. Right?
They'd just be to cover up your bits. Stuff like that.
But that might be all it is. Who knows?
But at the same time if we were blind would we have gone to discover
new worlds and... There would be no Columbus.
We'd still think the earth was flat.
Right, we wouldn't see the sunshine or anything, so
you know, the sunshine coming up over the horizon and going back down the other way
at night. You never notice that. So...
this is strange. [music resolves]
So I'm just curious. I mean, I know who asked this question,
right? But I'm just curious, why?
Do you want to stay over at my house and walk around naked for a couple days.
Is that what you're into? [southern accent] I'm one of those people
who like to be naked in front of blind people. That's my fetish.
Wow! Okay. Wouldn't it be funny if Khloe Kardashian
sent that question in. [laughs]
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